APIs

January 26, 2018

SECURITY

Demystifying the API (Using Threat Grid as an Example)

3 min read

Let's talk about API usage. An API is a means of interacting with a program via another program. Just like a UI is a User Interface, an API is an...

October 18, 2017

DEVELOPER

API Scaling, Security, Serverless API-ing and GraphQL – Hot Topics at the NordicAPI Platform Summit

3 min read

I was lucky enough to hit Stockholm for the NordicAPI Platform Summit at the beginning of last week. It’s one of only a few all-API focused events held internationally, so given a (probably unhealthy) chunk of my life has been about APIs and all that comes with them, I was geekily excited about it. If […]

August 29, 2017

COLLABORATION

Digitization Changes How We Work and Collaborate

7 min read

The companies that are quicker to embrace digitization will leave everyone else behind. If we ignore people, or how they want to work, or what tools they want to use – we fail.

February 9, 2016

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 5. The Wonderful World of Spark and APIs

1 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing The Wonderful World of Spark and APIs with Cisco Subject Matter Expert Jose de Castro. Jose joined Cisco as part of the Tropo acquisition where he was the CTO. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the […]

December 8, 2015

COLLABORATION

Cisco Collaboration Summit: Notes from Day 1

3 min read

It’s always nice to have your CEO stop by your event’s opening keynote. So it’s safe to say that Cisco’s Rowan Trollope had a pretty good day after CEO Chuck Robbins joined him on stage for the Cisco Collaboration Summit keynote.

November 2, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

Getting Started in Cisco’s DevNet

7 min read

Mark Watney is “The Martian”, in case you haven’t heard. In the movie, he’s a Botanist stranded on Mars. But in the book, he’s first a mechanical engineer, and a botanist as his second skillset. It’s hard to if he’s an engineer-botanist or a botanist-engineer, but he’s a pretty cool guy. Think McGuyver with better […]

November 6, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

OPEN: A Fundamental Part of the Network of the Future

3 min read

Over the past several years, I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of two important trends in the networking industry - the evolution of open standards and open APIs,...

July 2, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Technology Behind the Surface

2 min read

What do Walt Disney World, The Matrix, and Big Ben have in common?  On the surface they do not share much.  Each of these is special because everything that makes them tick, pun intended, are hidden from view of the consumers.  We all intuitively know there is a great deal of complexity behind the scenes, […]

February 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Three light beams that emanated from OpenDaylight Summit

5 min read

Earlier this month, I attended the first ever summit on OpenDaylight (ODL) project in Santa Clara, CA. This near sold out event was largely successful by many standards. It brought together a large number of great minds to the table to solve some of the toughest challenges the networking industry is facing around Software-defined Networking […]